High-Voltage Shock Puts Contractor in Hospital
- A MasTec utility contractor was hospitalized after striking a high-voltage power line during a pole installation on Burnt Store Road in Cape Coral, Florida.
- The electrical contact required an emergency response and a temporary road closure to facilitate medical evacuation.
- While the worker survived, the incident highlights the critical need for strict adherence to safety codes and utility guidelines to prevent field injuries.
Crash Kills One Contractor and Hospitalizes Another
- A vehicle struck two landscape contractors performing maintenance along Interstate 85 South near vehicular traffic in College Park.
- The driver lost control of the vehicle, collided with the workers, and eventually flipped over in a ditch.
- One worker died at the scene, while emergency responders transported the second injured worker to a local hospital.
- Police took the driver into custody as investigators review the safety factors surrounding the highway crash.
Study Links Construction Worker Fatigue to Unsafe Behaviors
- Physical fatigue heavily drives construction safety incidents by increasing the probability of workers’ unsafe behaviors.
- The ASCE Library study evaluated this impact by monitoring three workers performing material handling tasks over three days.
- Results showed unsafe actions rose notably after thirty minutes of strenuous manual work as physical fatigue accumulated.
- Continuous electrocardiogram data confirmed significant correlations between these workplace safety risks and specific cardiac variations.